TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: rberrypi
to: HENRI DERKSEN
from: MIKE POWELL
date: 2018-09-24 19:24:00
subject: Raspberry Pi.

> My UniCornBBS in Arnhem.NL in Europe still uses POTS, and mostly once a day.
> For your information: in the near future before september 2019 I have to
> move to TCP/IP wich UniCornBBS,
> probably on a (reserve old) Raspberry Pi 1B and/or BeagleBoard.
> My most luxury Pi 3B+ is used for my own pleasure ;-).
> I am now seeking for the right RISC OS and/or Raspbian Linux FTN software
> packages, which help from a colleage Dutch sysop.
> Advise about this FTN solution is very welcome.

Henri,
As this involves Raspberry Pis, I suppose it is on topic.

Here, I have a Pi 2B+.  I am running MagickaBBS software, which has its own
version of Crashmail II as the tosser (Magimail), and am using the stock
raspbian binkd package as the mailer.  Works great!

I am not sure what BBS software you are using now.  Magicka is technically
alpha but is pretty solid.  It has telnet, SSH, and web capabilities.  If
you would like to try something more stable, Synchronet will also compile
on a Pi (I have not done it myself), and it comes with its own tosser.  It
has many additional internet capabilities.

Both are under current development, both are OSS, and the programmers of
both are good to work with.

I have never tried BBSing (or anything) on a Beagle.  Is it an intel board, or
ARM?  If it is intel, I have some experience with the UP Board.  I run a
Synchronet board, as well as a 30+ year-old GT Power board (under dosemu!),
on it.  The GT board even has POTS!  :)

Mike

---
 * SLMR 2.1a * This message protected by DALETECH!!
* Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105)

SOURCE: echomail via QWK@docsplace.org

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.